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Devil’s Staircase
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Written and Hosted by Kelsey HoustonEdwards
Produced by Rusty Ward
Graphics by Ray Lux
Made by Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com)

What shape is formed by taking a diagonal slice of a 4dimensional cube? Or, a 10dimensional cube? It turns out that a very familiar mathematical object Pascal’s triangle can help us answer this question.

Further Resources:

Cube Slices, Pictoral Triangles and Probability
http://www.maa.org/sites/default/file...

Challenge Winner:

Asthmen
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Comments answered by Kelsey:

Tehom
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Badplayz
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